Posted on 01/19/2008 3:12:02 PM PST by blam
'We want to offer sharia law to Britain'
By Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Last Updated: 9:22pm GMT 19/01/2008Page 1 of 3
Islamic courts meet every week in the UK to rule on divorces and financial disputes. Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones report on demands by senior Muslims that sharia be given legal authority
Amnah is a modern British Muslim. She is dressed in a denim skirt and her head is covered in a hijab. Poised and self-assured, she has come to meet Dr Suhaib Hasan, a silver-bearded sheikh who sits behind his desk, surrounded by religious books.
The origins and obligations of sharia law advertisement "But why would I have to observe the waiting period?" she asks him. "What are the reasons?" There is an urgency to her questions.
"These reasons don't apply to me, that's what I'm very confused about. If you could give me the reasons why I have to wait three months, then I'll understand."
Amnah is going through a divorce and is baffled at being told that she must wait for three months to remarry, considering that she hasn't seen her estranged husband for two years.
She twists her sock-clad toes into the carpet, grasping one hand with the other in her lap, and fixes Dr Hasan with an intense look. He meets this with a simple reply: "These rulings are all in the Koran. The rulings are made for all."
Amnah has little choice but to comply: Dr Hasan is a judge, and this is a sharia court - in east London. It sits, innocuously, at the end of a row of terrace houses in Leyton: a converted corner shop, with blinds on the windows, office- style partitions and a makeshift reception area.
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—an “offer” they can’t refuse???
If England falls, Europe is most certainly doomed.
We can always scrape it clean and remake it into a Medieval Theme Park and Ancient Adventure Getaway.
We invested all that effort and money into developing neutron bombs. We may be able to get some use out of them in awhile.
Islamics can take their “sharia” and stick it where sun doesn’t shine.
Purge the west of Islam before it’s too late.
They need to relocate the graves of Churchill and Nelson here to America where they can rest in peace. Seriously.
At the present rate of Muslim immigration and declining British birth rates, all of UK will be under Sharia law in a matter of decades.
I agree,but we can send Bill Clinton to restore our reputation in the world.(sarc) One of the few countries in the world that is still sane and safe is the USA,the religion of the sword is sweeping across the world along with its friends,every socialist,communist and dictator ran country there is. Where are those people we want as friends?
Sharia law is the law of dogs.
When the islamomuzzies “offer” us Sharia law here in the U.S., the bullets in my rifle will have been dipped in pig grease.
OBTW, that’s simple with a Garand M-1: you take the eight round bloc clip, take the lid off the can of bacon drippings, and dip. Then load. Too easy.
Islam the religion is protected by the Constitution. Meanwhile, Islam the political system plots to cut our throats.
I challenge anyone to convince me that Islam deserves 1st Amendment protection.
Very aptly put.
And if a Democrat gets into the White House in 2008 (or 2012...), how long before Sharia is making inroads here, too???
As they say in England, “Go bugger off”!
“... how long before Sharia is making inroads here, too???”
Until the rest of us get over the habit of behaving politely. Once we finally wrap our heads around the futility of playing nicey nice with our implacable enemy, we can get down to misbehaving with a purpose.
coming to a city near you...........sooner than you think.
The idea that ideologies hostile to the very existence of our nation or our Constitution also deserve protection was the creation of radical leftists.
It’s idiocy of the highest degree. The intellectual inbreeding required to fall for that grotesque of a manipulation of reality is beyond rational understanding.
Hostile ideologies are not a matter of differing opinion. They are a matter of differing loyalties and adherence to them is betrayal.
Islam the religion (not the political system) gets First Amdendment protection insofar as any religion does -- it must not run afoul of our other laws.
For example, I am free to practice, let's say, worship of oak trees. Except that I am not permitted to do so on my neighbor's property without his permission -- I have to get my own oak trees to worship. And if my worship of, let's say, sharp pointy objects involves their use in carving up other people, that's prohibited too.
"Free exercise of religion" is like any other protected freedom -- it stops where it infringes on the rights of others according to law.
On the other hand, Islam the political system must be kept from gaining a foothold anywhere in America. It is complete anathema to our Constitutional Republic.
Note: I'm not trying to convince you of anything. Just stating my opinion on the applicability of the First.
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